Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Not-So-Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man - A fusion of web-slinging and powerful combat moves combine to create an unbeatable, all-new fighting system that intuitively blends Spider-Man's speed and strength with the environment for deadly new attacks and combos
• Anything Goes - At a moment's notice, you can harness the grace, agility and acrobatics of Spider-Man Red Suit, or leverage the brute, savage power of the Black Suit. Switch suits at any time to create devastating never-before-seen combos and finishing moves
• The City That Never Sleeps - Teeming with life, the Big Apple is more alive than ever before in the Spider-Man series. Citizens will either cheer Spider-Man on or run away in fear, depending on your actions and decisions
• Increased city interactivity and destructibility allow you to pick up and use anything in your way as a weapon, destroy store fronts, demolish vehicles, and virtually obliterate city streets with powerful attacks
• With some of the greatest heroes and most notorious villains in the Marvel Universe, including staples such as Luke Cage and Vulture, your choices control who will ultimately aid you in the fight to rid New York of the alien symbiote

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001811BVC
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 21, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,724 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo Wii

Spiderman: Web of Shadows Wii

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best spider-Man game, with some flaws., November 7, 2008

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Mr. Doom - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (Video Game)

The last few years have seen a big mess of Spider-man.Films, games based on films...And that killed the games based on the comics.While this game takes more of a comic inspired approach, they go their own way with the story and some other details. I'll let you know what I thought they did right, and what they completely burned to the ground.

First off, Wii owners did NOT get a bad port of a PS2 version for once.You get just about everything that the Xbox360/PS3 get, minus the obviously superior graphics.Lets start there-The graphics are not bad.Not the best Ive seen on a Wii game, but it has a much better character model then Spider-Man 3, pretty smooth animations,and a not entirely but still kinda sucky camera. It can slow down a lot in high number fights, but for the most part its smooth.

Controls on a Wii game can make but usually break it.Besides one problem that will pop up frequently, the controls work and feel pretty natural after the small learning curve.With experimentation you will find that Spider-Man has quite a few cool things he can do with the enviornment with the right timing and button, many based on his comic book signature moves. Jump towards a wall, push against it and let go, you will kick off the wall jumping into the air again. Jump at a wall and hit the jump button again on impact, and you will stick to the wall in a classic pose until you release the button. Major comic fans will love these little things.
There is basically a button for punching, jumping,interacting and using webs followed by waggle control for lock ons, costume switching, web chain attacks, web zips, and just normal web-swinging.
Pros-the combat system is amazing, as it allows you to chain hundreds of attacks together through the air to the ground to the walls.Web swinging is simple and fun again, and doesn't use the horrible nunchuk like SM3.
Cons-You flick the nunchuk left or right to change costumes, and down to lock on to enemies.You should be used to nunchuk waggle controls sucking, and if you aren't, well this sucks.You will lock on when trying to change costumes or vice versa in some very bad times.

The storyline is pretty basic, and is really just a way to give you more missions which are pretty much kill everything in sight or save someone.Throw in some cool boss fights, and thats the game.Yes, you will fight a lot.Besides collecting tokens to improve speed and strength, you will most often fight.Did I get it in your head yet? FIGHT.It will bore some people.You can skip most of the side missions if you want so that you fight LESS, but you get the idea.If anything once in a while they could have added a cool button sequence rescue like what was in ultimate spidermans storyline sometimes,so lets hope for some improvememnt here in the future.The list of other characters that you meet or mention is a great bonus for marvel readers though.You even get quizzed on spidey knowledge at one point.Nice.

There are a few glitches in the game that i have to mention.Number one is the buzzing freeze, no explanation needed.I didnt get this untill later on in the game, but it sucks.Other epople online have reported things that vanish, missions that dont show up or parts of missions that dont show up, which allow you to never move on unless you reload the game-I have not seen any of this, but I thought I might as well mention it.

Oddball details will occur-Venom is mentioned as Eddie, even though he looks based on the new scorpion venom design.Things like this make it hard to place exactly when this occurs(though its not canon by any account). But overall, I have had fun with this game and plan on replaying it to get the different ending.It could be better, but is in my opinion the best spider-man game we have to date.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than expected!, January 21, 2010

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Jaden P. Brulotte "Jaden" (Enfield, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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Got this for my husband when it was a gold box deal for Christmas... I saw that it had good reviews but honestly didn't expect it to be as fun as it was! I was thinking it would be good- FOR A SUPERHERO GAME. But it's actually a good game, regardless. He really enjoys it... it has great gameplay and the movement of the characters (the way you make him jump from building to building and swing on his webs) seems to be a lot of fun. I haven't played it myself, but just from watching, I am impressed, and hubby said it's much better than he thought it would be. Definitely recommended!

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable!, October 30, 2008

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Daniel Warren (Sacramento California) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (Video Game)

This is the best Spider-Man game ever made. It's even better than Spider-Man 2 which was so good I've played it for over three years - in fact I was still playing it before Web of Shadows was released.

Web of Shadows takes everything was great about Spider-Man 2 and adds more. The combat is simply incredible. Not only can you engage foes on the ground, but now you can take the fights to the side of buildings, and even into mid air (something I have always wanted to do.)The swinging controls are also good and very smooth. All the controls integrate very well with the Wii-mote and nun chuck.

There are lots of things to do in this game, and although the story mode is a tad short, it's made up for by a large number of side missions. But the main draw here is definitely the combat, and this is something that never gets old. Spider-Man Web of Shadows is the Spider-Man game I've been waiting for all my life. Definitely worth a buy!

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